Heritage: 497 books
How to Catch Shellfish
Along the Pacific Coast
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
With over 120 illustrations, How to Catch Shellfish shows you how, where and when to catch clams, oysters, mussels, prawns and other shellfish. Also included are:
equipment tips
how to outrace razor clams
shoreline recipes
by Charlie White
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Fishing guru Charlie White explains the equipment and techniques for harvesting seafood. Get the best yields of shrimp, crabs, oysters and many species of fish, including sea perch, greenling, red snapper, cod and sole. Learn how to harvest exotic seafoods such as abalone, limpets, moon snail and...
Winter Wise
Travel and Survival in Ice and Snow
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
A man who has spent his professional life measuring the flow of northern rivers, climbed Alaska’s Mount McKinley, was a member of both Yale University and Maine University’s scientific expeditions to the Antarctic, guided a film crew documenting the late Robert Kennedy’s ascent of Mount Kennedy,...
26 Feet to the Charlottes: Exploring the Land of the Haida
Exploring the Land of the Haida
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
When June Cameron and Paul Holsinger set out in 1983 in Paul's ancient 26-foot wooden sloop, Wood Duck, to cross the perilous Hecate Strait and explore the weather-beaten west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (now known as Haida Gwaii), they knew they would face danger. But June had raced her...
Country Roads of British Columbia
Exploring the Interior
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Join Liz Bryan on 18 picturesque journeys through the diverse landscapes of the British Columbia Interior. Winding through sagebrush and forest, grassland plateaus and mountain valleys, beside river canyons and multicoloured volcanic rocks, these road trips reveal the rich variety of the province's...
by Jack Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Best known for his original series of Arthurian novels, A Dream of Eagles (called The Camulod Chronicles in the US), and his more recent Knights Templar trilogy, Jack Whyte has authored 10 international bestsellers in the past 15 years. Jack's imagination and his passion for observing human nature...
Secret Beaches of Greater Victoria
View Royal to Sidney
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Secret Beaches of Greater Victoria is a comprehensive review of nearly 100 beaches on the Saanich Peninsula and in the Greater Victoria area. While some of these are well used by people living nearby, many are virtually impossible to find without combing through official maps and back-road guides....
Emily Carr
The Incredible Life and Adventures of a West Coast Artist
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This is the story of a rebellious girl from British Columbia who travelled the world in pursuit of her calling only to find her true inspiration in the Canadian landscape she’d left behind. Both a prolific painter and an accomplished writer, Carr was more comfortable in the raw wilderness than in...
British Columbia Murders: Notorious Cases and Unsolved Mysteries
Notorious Cases and Unsolved Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In July 1924, Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith was murdered in Vancouver's wealthy Shaughnessy Heights. Her killer was never apprehended, but the investigation had shocking consequences. Twenty years later, Molly Justice was stabbed to death in a Saanich park. Her murderer has never been charged, even...
Dangerous Spirits
The Windigo in Myth and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America—from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the north, from Nova Scotia in the east to Minnesota in the west—believed...
Healy's West
The Life and Times of John J. Healy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Through his incredibly varied fifty-year career, John J. Healy left an indelible mark on the Canadian and American west. At different points in his storied life, Healy was a soldier, a trapper, a prospector, a free trader, an explorer, a horse dealer, a scout, a lawman, a newspaper editor, a speculator,...
by Hugh A. Dempsey
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The expansive ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Nation ranged from the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta to the Missouri River in Montana and from the Rocky Mountains east to the Cypress Hills. This buffalo-rich land sustained the Blackfoot for generations until the arrival of whiskey traders,...
by Cecil Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
From 1858 until 1950, the BC Provincial Police maintained law and order in British Columbia, patrolling this vast and rugged area by horseback, boat, snowshoes and dog team until the arrival of the train, automobile and airplane. These classic cases from the files of North America's first territorial...
Hockey Night in Dixie
Minor Pro Hockey in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
During the 1980s, the geography of minor-league professional hockey changed radically, moving from its roots in the Canadian Maritime provinces, New England and the Midwestern states into the American south. In addition to cities like Dallas, Charlotte, Norfolk and Oklahoma City, which had long traditions...